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Algeria: Government Reshuffled But Course Unchanged
...rengthened its grip on the much-feared state security service. When the tremors of the Arab Spring reached Algeria in early 2011, demonstrations of a few dozen people in Algiers were met with more than 30,000 security personnel. BOUTEFLIKA: NOT MOVING That is not to say there are not risks to st...
Volume: 60Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2017 -
Egypt Seeks Virtuous Output Circle: Reserves Up, Dues Down, More Output
...proved its external financial position. The country’s foreign reserves hit $31.1bn at end-May (see chart 1), the highest level since 2011 when investment collapsed in the wake of the revolution overthrowing Husni Mubarak. Reserves rapidly halved from the $36bn end-2010 level and struggled to break above $20...
Volume: 60Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2017 -
Sanctions: Tehran Tries To Come In From Cold As US Threatens To Turn Up Heat
...ough there remains some way to go. Crude exports to the EU were worth $4.57bn in 2016 according to figures from the European Commission compared to $23.5bn in 2011, when oil prices were of course substantially higher (MEES, 7 April). …BUT INVESTMENT STALLED… The biggest Iranian energy de...
Volume: 60Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2017 -
Bahrain: New Minister Challenged By Oxy/Mubadala Withdrawal
...cording to our agreement, in 2010 production will rise to 35,000 b/d, and then to 47,500 b/d in 2011. By 2016, it should grow to 102,300 b/d, before reaching a peak of 112,600 b/d in 2019” (MEES, 16 November 2009). The venture has had greater success in its plans to increase gas production capacity fr...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
OPEC May Production Drops Despite Saudi And Iran Increases
...vels of 3.58mn b/d (2011). May’s 3.42mn b/d is the highest output figure since February 2012’s 3.46mn b/d, just after the announcement of tighter EU sanctions but before they took their full toll on production. Both countries remain intent on securing their “rightful” market share, following the 2 June Op...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
US Imports More Gulf Opec Crude As Production Continues To Fall
...y (see p24) “the highest monthly level recorded since EIA started tracking global disruptions in January 2011.” US crude production of 8.75mn b/d in May was the lowest since June 2014 and down some 950,000 b/d from the April 2015 peak, recording the biggest month on month fall since September 20...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
Libya: Joint Action Pushes Back IS, But Unity Far From Complete
...ke Sirte without significant Western support,” says Mr Pusztai. “In 2011 it took them almost two months to take the city from the remaining Qadhafi loyalists, and that was with air support from the West. Now they are facing battle hardened jihadists who are well trained and experienced in operating in...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
Iran Struggles To Attract Investment Amid Continued Sanctions, Both Real & Perceived
...clear capability, has had a crippling impact on its economy. After these sanctions were tightened further in 2011, Iran’s roughly $420bn economy shrank by about 9% in the following two-year period that ended in March 2014, according to the IMF. Crude oil exports fell from 2.48mn b/d in 2011 to ju...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
Crude Official Selling Prices ($/B)
... SAUDI ARABIA CUTS PRICE FOR NW EUROPE SALES OF ARAB MEDIUM TO 5-YEAR HIGH DISCOUNT* OF $6.45/B FOR JULY... ...THIS PUTS THE GRADE AT A $1.60/B DISCOUNT TO COMPETING BASRA LIGHT**, THE HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE FEB 2011 *FOB RAS TANURA, VS...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
Bijan Namdar Zanganeh: A Star Is Born At OPEC
...at it was pre-sanctions as soon as the restrictions on its exports are lifted. Current Iranian production is some 800,000 b/d down on what it was back in 2011 (see p2), whilst Iran’s current exports are 1.2-1.3mn b/d below the 2.5mn b/d it was producing in the same year. Mr Badri said after the en...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015 -
Total Sees Sunshine Amid Gulf Turbulence-Interview With CEO Patrick Pouyanne
...0 B/D) Gas (MN CFD) 2011 2012 2013 2014 2011 2012 2013 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015 -
Algeria Ploughs On With Failed Policies
...nister, in 2011. But in recent months it has been little mentioned. The goal is “still on the agenda,” said Mr Demmak, although he admitted that “nothing major” has been done so far in terms of infrastructure development. Renewables are “part of the solution” to tackling the issue of providing clean an...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015 -
Saudi Generator Hikes Capacity By 6%, Fuel Flexibility The Key
...C’s share of total Saudi installed capacity fell from a peak of 82% in 2011 to 74% for 2014. The company says that its actual volume of generated electricity exceed the company’s planned volume for 2014 by 9.1%. However, the company improved the average thermal efficiency of its plants by 1% co...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015 -
Jordan’s Energy Supplies: Lots Of Options, None Of Them Good
...sue, which ‘Amman aims to tackle through its Electricity Master Plan. Jordan imports both crude oil for its sole refinery, the 100,000 b/d nameplate capacity Zarqa plant, and refined products, given that demand has raced ahead of domestic refining capacity since gas supplied from Egypt dwindled in 2011...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015 -
Wintershall Eyes Future Opportunities In Libya Despite Onshore Production Shut-In
...August 2012). Wintershall Libya is 51% owned by German chemicals firm BASF and 49% owned by Russian state gas giant Gazprom. Key assets are the C96 and C97 blocks in the east of Libya’s Sirte Basin oil production heartland, which typically produced 100,000 b/d prior to Libya’s 2011 re...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015 -
Us Crude Production Continues To Rise As Imports Fall (‘000 B/D)
...4Q14 vs1Q14 4Q14 3Q14 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 CRUDE OIL IMPORTS 7,020 7,...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015 -
Rising Oil Exports Raise Questions Over Washington’s Iran Policy
...ndensates rose by close to 200,000 b/d in April versus March levels, to breach the 1.4mn b/d mark. By 2011 standards, this would represent a disastrous month for Iranian exports, which were then averaging upwards of 2.5mn b/d. Fast forward three years however, and the figures are still alarming – but fo...
Volume: 57Issue: 23Published at Fri, 06 Jun 2014 -
KRG Oil Export Plans All At Sea
...rsang since 2010. It has made two significant discoveries in the Swara Tika structure, the last of which was in 2011. But it did not declare commerciality until May this year, beyond the five-year exploration period specified in the production-sharing agreement signed in 2007. The delay soured re...
Volume: 57Issue: 23Published at Fri, 06 Jun 2014 -
Libya: Exports Down, Output Down, Violence Continues
...rf offshore fields is not sold to the international market, it would be the first time since 2011 that Libya ceased to export oil completely. Production, which averaged 200,000 b/d in April, edged up slightly to average 220,000 b/d in May, according to MEES estimates. However, this higher monthly av...
Volume: 57Issue: 23Published at Fri, 06 Jun 2014 -
Cost Of Conflict Rises To $144bn
...SYRIA A report released last week, prepared by the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR) and commissioned by UNRWA and UNDP, indicates that the Syrian economy has sustained losses of $143.8bn between the start of that country’s civil war in 2011 and the end of 2013. These losses ar...
Volume: 57Issue: 23Published at Fri, 06 Jun 2014